"Then someone has chosen the most horribly inconvenient time to snatch me away. By the time I return, the paperwork just might have achieved sentience and taken over my castle!"

Fingon leaned into the hug gladly; it had been too long since he'd been able to greet any of his cousins as family rather than as lords and allies and vassals. But as he embraced his cousin, it was hard not to notice that Maglor was rather thinner than he should have been. "Kano," he inquired as they drew back, "have you been eating?"